Dan Rather has followed the news wherever he goes, in a career that highlights 75 years of evolving journalism

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This profile traces Dan Rather's path from a regional Texas reporter covering JFK's Dallas visit to two dozen years anchoring the CBS Evening News, and now to his current life as a social media commentator approaching his 95th birthday. It recounts his Watergate-era confrontations with Nixon, his Vietnam reporting, and the 2004 National Guard documents controversy that ended his anchor tenure.

The piece frames Rather's career as shaped more by the restless instincts of a reporter than the measured calm expected of an anchor, drawing a direct line to Edward R. Murrow's combative style of journalism.

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Source: Read the original at The Conversation → Scored: Circus Waltz · Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 4.0

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